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Jose Maysonet

 

Charge:

First Degree Murder

Sentence:

Life Imprisonment without possibility of parole

Years Imprisoned:

27.33

Year Crime:

1990

Year Convicted:

1995

Year Cleared:

2017

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Illinois

County or Region of Crime:

Cook

City of Crime:

Chicago

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

"Jose Maysonet was wrongly convicted of murder in Chicago, Illinois. Maysonet's prosecution was based on a confession that he recanted as coerced by police beating, and the testimony of the police officers involved in his case. On November 15, 2017 the motion by the Cook County State's Attorney's Office to dismiss the charges was granted. The prosecutors filed the motion after the attorneys for five retired Chicago Police Department officers (the four detectives and a sergeant) disclosed to the judge that during a post-conviction hearing for Maysonet all five planned to assert their Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination."

Conviction Caused By:

"False confession beat out of him by Chicago Police Department Detective Reynaldo Guevara. Guevara fabricated testimony and evidence to implicate suspects in a crime that included diecting witnesses who to pick out of a lineup, and extracting false confessions by beatings and torture. As of November 2019 14 men had their convictions overturned and charges dismissed or acquitted after a retrial due to Guevara's criminal conduct: Juan Johnson in 2004; Jacques Rivera in 2011; Jose Montanez and Armando Serrano in July 2016; Robert Almodovar and William Negron in April 2017; Jose Maysonet in November 2017; Gabriel Solache and Arturo DeLeon-Reyes in December 2017; Thomas Sierra in January 2018; Ariel Gomez in February 2018; Ricardo Rodriguez in March 2018; Robert Bouto in June 2018; and, Geraldo Iglesias in January 2019."

Innocence Proved By:

"On November 15, 2017 the motion by the Cook County State's Attorney's Office to dismiss the charges was granted. The prosecutors filed the motion after the attorneys for five retired Chicago Police Department officers (the four detectives and a sergeant) disclosed to the judge that during a post-conviction hearing for Maysonet all five planned to assert their Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination."

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Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

22

Age When Released:

49

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

Hispanic

Information Source 1:

"Prosecutors drop murder charges after 5 ex-Chicago cops plan to take the 5th, By Megan Crepeau, Chicago Tribune, November 15, 2017"

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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-met-cops-take-fifth-charges-dropped-20171115-story.html

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